Personally, I find the river raft trip quite an adventure and definitely exciting. The thought of drifting down the middle of the Mississippi in the dark of night with my feet dangling over the edge in the cold water is so inviting. I'd love to do a trip like this even today, but when I was a teenager this would have been a dream come true.

My biggest complaint with this book is simply that it was difficult to read at my normal reading speed. I know Twain was trying to capture the southern and slave dialects as accurately as possible, but this caused me to continuously pause to try to understand what each character was saying.

I'm reading this on my Kindle and am still only at about 56% through the book.

Chris wrote:

I'm reading this on my Kindle and am still only at about 56% through the book

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Well, read it in a proper friggin book then. (I'm only saying this to Chris, because he's the boss, and he knows me well enough)

Actually, my daughter had a kindle for Christmas and she says she finds it much easier to read, especially in bed. But of course, books having been my livelihood, and still contribute to finances to a large extent.....I couldn't possibly agree.

I found it like, when reading Dickens, the language at first seems archaic and difficult and then suddenly, you get into it and don't need to give it a second thought. A Clockwork Orange was like this too. Anthony Burgess invented his own language for the protagonists.